djweeble
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It will still be fine if it's in an aerosol can.
I have a few 2 litre bottles that I've had for about 6 years, and they are still OK, even though they've been opened, as long as you replace the cap tightly, and keep it in a cool (ish) place out of direct sunlight, it'll still last for years in those.
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But doesn't it ONLY work if you use an iBone, it's still bugger all use with any other phone or source
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Another downer for the iBad...
You can't use Bluetooth to transfer pictures/files/music from your phone etc :thumbs-down1:
Apparently it only supports headsets, music streaming and keyboards....
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... and check out the MAJOR problems people are now finding with IOS 5 :Winky:
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Tab.
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Does anyone still use a Gmail address :Hmm: I dumped mine yonks back.
A whole load of forums and sites have banned them for sign ups.
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All we need now is a couple of posts from CT and KFF :Cool:
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I think deed poll might be a good idea i know there was something about it on bbc news about a week ago so i'll check out bbc news site before i do anything else.
All1
Forget the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation....
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Running up a (genuine) fake ID is a piece of piss as well :Smiler:
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I was going to open a new account before the sh1t hit the fan but i hate having all my eggs in one basket, as for an alias my REAL name is Sharon :kissy: , yea it's a grey area having a bank account in another name, I know it's not a crime to have one it's what you "plan" to do with it that could turn it into a crime but unsure if i would have to go down route of fake ID or not, I've not done anything on those lines for some time and i'm well out of the loop I wonder how easy it would be to set up an account for a kid, if it's just a birth cert then that no issues, might have to look at that route, i don't have tons of cash (far from it) but the last thing i need is some sh1t trying to get there hands on just for corp greed.
A change of name by Deed Poll is your friend, it's perfectly legal, and it DOESN'T have to be recorded anywhere or notified to anyone, well, ish :Hmm:
You just forget to use your new name for anything other than the bank account :Winky:
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I got this from a friend on another forum:
Hi Phil,I'm after a quick favour (or rather the kids I teach to sail/kayak are).
I help to teach sailing/powerboating/kayaking to kids in my spare time – we are based in Somerset – but train kids from all over the country (over 500 so far this year).
Our charity is in line for a desparetly needed £6,000 grant if we can raise enough votes by midday tomorrow (Monday) We are currently in 4th place – the top three get the grant from Nat West.
Could you take 2 minutes to vote for us please?
1) Just go to the following page to register:
https://communityfor.../user/register/
2) Then confirm the link they send you via email.
3) Once you have confirmed your email visit this link to log in (top right) and vote:
http://communityforc...om/project/3115
Really would be grateful, cheers for reading, and like I say – this is a one off – sorry to invade your email in-box if you are not up for it.
Cheers mate.
I've done my bit, do any of you want to help too :Cool:
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Nearly as much as I had on you being synical.
Surely you mean cynical :Fun:
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I just read this:
Scary stuff really, but then a thought occurred to me . . . . was it only the rise of Nazism and Fascism that prevented America undertaking the plan ?
Did Hitler and Mussolini save the British Empire and stop America murdering millions of British people with chemical weapons ?
I wonder how the historians would explain that ! :cha-ching:
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Easy peasy smash the ###### around the head until he appears not to be moving, go find a hammer from your toolkit, place firmly into the intruders hand then ring the police.
Ta-da justifiable force, exactly the defence they rely on when somebody dies in custody
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Unlike when the Rozzers do something wrong, DNA and forensic evidence would have you "bang to rights" in no time at all.
I'd be tempted to think the same way, but I've dealt the hard way with the Plod Dorset Jackboot Goons, so think carefully about it and come up with a really plausible method.
I do agree with the guy being initially arrested, as Plod have to "investigate" the circumstances of any suspicious death, but I do hope that he has no charges brought against him.
AND, if you think that it's not a suspicious death, just think outside the box for a moment . . . what would happen if you had an argument with someone, dragged/lured them into your your house, and killed them. Then you call the Filth and claim you caught a burglar in the act . . . . you can bet it's going to happen somewhere, sometime, when/if they change the law.
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Trial by press.
They could never print/publish that while he was alive, so they get away with (possibly) tarnishing his image now he can't take any action against them for it.
Unless someone comes forward with proof, and I suspect that will never happen as if there really was any solid evidence he would have been charged, I prefer to assume that I never read that article.
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Take it easy mate and have a good time and a safe trip.
If you're going via Basel, then take care on the Swiss motorway down to Italy, they are very keen on the speed traps and will fine you heavily for being even slightly over the limit
AND, be very careful in northern Italy especially around Milan, the drivers there really are out to KILL you
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Does anyone know if Ikea UK haggle over prices when your instore, or do you always have to pay the ticket price?
All1
We have a comedian in our midsts :Smiler:
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I don't have an iBone, but I have lots of friends that do, that I didn't have the phone number for, well I do now.
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I thought it was down the the individual, whether they display their details o not, I chose not to display mine.
If you have a friend with an iPhone, and they have the Facebook iPhone ap installed, and they have your phone number in the phone, it's listed.
And there is nothing you can do to stop it yourself, the only way to de-list it is for your friend to uninstall the ap !!
It also cross links through the system, so if someone has you as a Facebook friend, but doesn't have your phone number, it will update their contacts with your number.
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I would like to share an experience with you all, to do with drinking and driving.
Some of us have had brushes with the authorities on our way home...
Well I, for one, have done something about it.
The other day I was out for a lunch with friends and having had far too much wine, I did something I’ve never done before.
I took a bus home.
I arrived home safely and without incident, which was a real surprise, as I have never driven a bus before...
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ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS of your contacts are now on Facebook!
No joke - go to the top right of the screen, click on Account, then click on Edit Friends, go left on the screen and click on Contacts to see for yourself.
All phone numbers are published if the contact has it in their details! !
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Found this on my travels, quite an interesting viewpoint :Winky:
Planet of the Taxpayersby Jeffrey A. Tucker
The remake of The Planet of the Apes – the apes look real this time – purports to give the backstory of how it is that the world came to be governed by primates while the handful of humans are caged and abused.
The story line is so conventional that you could make it up just sitting there. A private-sector biochemical corporation rushes to test a drug that is supposed to reverse Alzheimer's. It is tested on apes and the drug makes them strangely intelligent. But the same drug unleashes a killer virus among humans. The rest is science-fiction history.
The anti capitalism is so familiar that it is not even as disturbing as it should be. The CEO struts around in super-fancy suits, always in a rush from place to place, and his main job is to look cool and bark at everyone. Several times he snaps that drug development is all about profits. He tells a research scientist (paraphrasing): "Don't talk to me about risk. Develop the drug. Then you get famous and I make money. That's the way it works."
Ah yes, corporate management, as told by the movies.
Then there is the privately owned ape prison where the animals are enslaved in cages before being taken to the laboratory to be pumped full of experimental drugs. They are shocked with electric prods, hit with clubs, fed gruel, and humiliated constantly by the jerk in charge.
How the viewer feels such deep sympathy for these poor creatures. And how satisfying once they plot their big break. Led by the most intelligent and strong among them – an ape learns to pick a lock – they re-enact Bastille Day; they leap out the top of the ape prison and run wild on the city. But they don't just kill people. No, they are compassionate and even humane. They only want to get back to their native habitat, where they can climb and leap from tree to tree.
Cheer the wonderful apes! How much they seem to embody our own plight!
How so? Well, if you get the ideological import of the film, we are all enslaved to reckless corporations and their relentless drive for profits. They experiment on us when they are good and ready and otherwise keep us in their cages and feed us gruel.
Not to put too fine a point on it: we are the apes!
What must we do about this? We must gain a new consciousness, come together, and plot our escape! Let us find the key, outwit our corporate masters, and run like hell until we find our paradise, which is surely somewhere where we can commune with nature and live without the corporate noose around our necks.
There's just one problem: this has nothing to do with reality. Yes, corporations want profits. Surely those are better than losses. And how do they get them? By making stuff that we want to buy. If we don't want the stuff, we need only not buy it. Refraining from spending is how we get the alleged noose off our necks.
The whole system in a free market operates not on a master/slave relationship but on an exchange nexus. All parties have to agree. If anyone is enslaved in this system, it is the corporation, which must slavishly try to extract money from us by giving us goods and services that we want. If they fail, they die. If they live, it is we who give them life.
The successful companies make profits because it turns out that we do want smart-phones, good clothes at an affordable price, healthcare, cool home furnishings, laptops, food that doesn't poison us, ice cream from time to time, fish from Vietnam, social-networking applications, fruit from Brazil, shoes from China, pianos from Germany, and electronics from Japan.
What's more, these companies are not hogging their profits. On the contrary, many are urging us to pay into an ownership stake with them in the hope that we will earn dividends, and the value of our ownership claim will rise as the company becomes ever more valuable.
Some noose!
And yet it is true that a form of slavery exists and thrives today, all over the world. We do live in cages. We are prodded by electrical shocks. We are fed gruel of sorts. And they do experiment on us. I'm speaking of the relationship of individuals all over the world to governments all over the world.
They live off us entirely, because governments produce nothing of their own. They extract 40 percent of our wealth in one way or another and use that money to build their castles and their power. In fact, that is our main value to them. Otherwise, we would have no value at all.
In the name of providing us welfare throughout life, they loot us throughout life. In the name of providing us security, they humiliate us and treat us all like animals – and then have the gall to say that this system is all about public service. They manufacture billions of laws that no one can possibly keep and yet put us in jail when they decide to catch us breaking them. They order us to kill each other in the name of patriotism, but they are the only winners in this game.
The states have organized the whole of humanity along political lines. I'm an American. You are Chinese. You are Russian. You are Nigerian. You are a Swede. But look at it: most of these political borders are wholly arbitrary and even artificial. The sea-to-shining-sea idea was a concoction of 19th-century elites, not of the founders. There is nothing in history called "China" – the elites had to trample down historic regional dynasties to concoct the modern nation-state.
And with social networking and digital communication, we are discovering something extremely important. We all have closer connections – potentially more-profound relationships – with each other than any of us have with the individual states that rule us. The salient fact is that we are stronger together than apart. Together we are the overwhelming majority, and they the minority. As we've seen in the Arab Spring, we can come together to teach each other and plot and plan our future. Then we only need to act.
But there's no need for any escape to anywhere. We are already home. It is the state that is the uninvited guest, the interloper who trashed the place, the invader who has distorted reality and violates our rights. We need only to assert our authority over ourselves and claim what is rightfully ours. They will be left to scramble, but their propaganda will have no effect, because we know the difference between the truth and their lies.
And what will we be left with? The freedom to serve each other, to cooperate with each other, to innovate and own. The result will be what Murray Rothbard called "anarchocapitalism," or what Hans Hoppe called the "natural society" without the state.
So, yes, there is a sense in which this movie has it all exactly right. We are the apes. But it makes one giant error in radically misconstruing the difference between friend and enemy in the cause of liberation.
Reprinted from Mises.org.
Life's a bitch, and it kicks like a mule :-(
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I've been with the girlfriend now for nearly 14 years, and we have 2 beautiful daughters, one, Samantha, is eight on Christmas Day, the other, Ronja is three 2 weeks later. Kirsten is 34, and even though she has had quite bad epilepsy since she was about 7 years old, she's been a wonderful mother to them both.
Since Samantha was born, Kirsten has had a lot more medical problems, and after Ronja, it got even worse, her eyesight has got very bad, she has big problems with her joints, and now suffers from severe migranes, which bring on bad epileptic seizures. She just brushed it all off and took it in her stride, but she finally listened to friends and relatives, and went to the doctor for tests.
Well, the results came back today.
She's been diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
There is currently no cure.
The doctor told her that she will probably be totally blind within a couple of years, and they have no way of knowing how bad she'll be physically, but she definately will deteriorate, probably needing liver transplants due to the high dose medication she'll be on for that and her epilepsy, and whilst it's not a death sentence, it's certainly a possibility. Lupus kills one in twenty within the first five years from diagnosis, rising to one in four within 20 years, there's no proper figures over 20 years yet.
Even after being told all this, and a lot more, she started to make jokes about being able to have a "white dog and a blind stick", and knowing all along that she was a bit Psycho. Right now, we're keeping it away from the girls, they don't need to know for a while, and Samantha probably wouldn't understand yet, let alone Ronja.
I haven't told her yet, but I decided earlier today that with the money I'll be getting from my house sale in Wales (around 200K), I'm going to take her to as many as possible of the places in the world that she has said over the years that she'd like to visit, while she can still see them.
Kirsten and the girls are staying at her parents place this weekend, and I'm not working tonight, so I'm spending a little time on my own with my second best friend, Glen Fiddich. Here's to the future, it's going to be one hell of a bumpy ride.